Richard Bach Quotes

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

A lot of people experience the world with the same incredulity as when a magician pulls a rabbit out of a hat.…We know that the world is not all sleight of hand and deception because we are in it, we are part of it. Actually we are the white rabbit being pulled out of the hat. The only difference beween us and the white rabbit is that the rabbit does not realize it is taking part in a magic trick.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Reality: What a concept!

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

Reason is the illusion of reality

We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

The world consists of images on a screen, and consciousness is the steady light that emanates from the projector.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

I think the mistake that people make often times is you just lose touch of reality and you have to never be afraid to call someone's bullshit or call someone's bluff when something doesn't make sense.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

Whatever was about, whoever I had seen, and heard rocking, and who had passed me by just now, whoever had opened the locked door was not 'real'. No. But what was 'real'? At that moment I began to doubt my own reality.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

I think the reality is important anyway.

It's hard to tell that the world we live in is either a reality or a dream.

Is it the world that says I am real, or is it you?

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.